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TVTropes: Dostoevsky is proto-anime writing at its best!
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Sep 22, 2013 15:33
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So I guess that would make them more expensive by unit than a pack of cigarettes? Could this Dozerfleet person be right?
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Nov 6, 2013 21:36
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quote:It would, due to technicalities in law in other states, also render those states' laws against the diabolical practice effectively null. Hahahaha great understanding of constitutional law there, guy! edit: Geokinesis posted:Hahaha, he puts Tvtropes and Freep to shame at the same time. That's perfect. Swan Oat fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Nov 9, 2013 |
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Nov 9, 2013 21:10
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Well *I* have read all of the Dresden Files books and while they are enjoyable, they are goony as hell. You definitely get the sense that Harry has a character class (white wizard), and that he levels up after every book. The thing is, Butcher is a somewhat competent writer, so he never writes about Harry's hit points or him running out of mana, or anything stupid like that. Because of how Butcher plots things out I definitely get the sense that he at least partly conceives of things as part of an RPG campaign, but he at least knows that books and games have different conventions and aren't the same thing. Also I'm pretty sure Harry is supposed to come across as a cool as hell, hardboiled detective hero but I don't think Butcher achieved that for non-Troper readers.
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Nov 13, 2013 15:14
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Yeah Butcher is looking much less goony these days with short hair but he still wears ill fitting pants and t-shirts with stupid "clever" sayings/jokes on them.
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Nov 14, 2013 21:07
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What happened to Deboss? He was one of the funniest tropers.
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Nov 15, 2013 14:38
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Lord, I hope he never picks up Blood Meridian. That was one of the best books I've ever read, but "entertaining distraction" it was not. I dunno man, there is plenty of awesome violence in Blood Meridian. If you're looking for a McCarthy book that tropers can misinterpret to be about awesome badasses doing wicked cool poo poo, Blood Meridian is probably it. Also, hahahaha, I looked at his page and look what I found! quote:Beige Prose: Often used. However, he also often uses words that people who aced the SATs would have to look up. It all depends on the book. Yes, this is how I would describe the prose of Cormac McCarthy, very dull and boring. Tellingly, there are no pages for any of his novels that have not been made into movies.
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Jan 21, 2014 18:21
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Morkyz posted:Friendship Is Optimal, in which an AI pony takes over the world Written by Eliezer Yudkowsi?
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Jan 22, 2014 15:07
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Gen. Ripper posted:how can sex for pleasure be a threat to the power hunger of the Party? This is explicitly spelled out in 1984. Like, not implied or something that the reader has to infer. Here is what O'Brien says to Winston. quote:We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. How the gently caress can you miss the point?
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Jan 25, 2014 20:31
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Sel Nar posted:gently caress Tropers. hahaha no it isn't! Here's the text if anyone else is curious. I guess "Palla. Pal La." is sort of close to "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta" but not really? And Lolita is about a child molester and that Skyrim thing is about a heroic woman who fought a monster?? Jesus Christ. That really is perfect troping though: recognize an extremely shallow similarity between two things and exclaim "deconstruction! corruption! I have read the first pages of Lolita and have clocked 400 hours in Skyrim, two things of similar quality. Behold my good taste."
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Jan 31, 2014 15:12
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crowfeathers posted:I'd like a fic of an Equestria a hundred years after the disappearances of the pony princesses. Rampant industrialization has taken hold, though no pony really knows why or likes it. Most ponies don't get their cutie marks. Those that do at special, approved academies in Canterlot, become the Marked, who are privileged over Blanks. Better to be Blank than Branded; those whose cutie marks had to be removed due to disloyalty. King Blueblood III reigns over the Kingdom, though it's a good question as to who really runs things, he or the corporations determined to place employees into corporate serfdom. Most unmarked pegasi can't fly anymore, most unmarked unicorns can't do magic; in fact there are school books that question if its even possible, or even if it was EVER possible. Earth ponies live far away from nature, wondering what that empty hole is inside them. Equestria hurts, and it doesn't even know the source of its pain. Is he seriously outlining a story but asking someone else to write it for him? 
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Feb 1, 2014 20:36
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TVTropes is an overly puritanical website that does not allow us to list all the good times where rape is played broadly, for laughs. I think they should change the trope name back, to more accurately allow the most important project of listing examples.
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Feb 12, 2014 14:24
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What is Kink Meme? I want to google it but I'm at work...
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Feb 12, 2014 23:16
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"Very good at empathy" is really loving funny. Empathy isn't a skillset you dweeb it's a character trait! Also, all the "age: unknown" and "motivation: [redacted]" stuff reads like character descriptions on the back of action figure packaging. So mysterious!
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Feb 24, 2014 16:59
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Has he published any more chapters? That was the best story.
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Mar 5, 2014 21:33
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I am genuinely surprised at the tone of that politics thread.
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Mar 7, 2014 19:14
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I told my brother a joke last night and he smiled at me, does he secretly want to practice gay incest?
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Mar 11, 2014 19:29
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Found the thread. Major Tom was there, but didn't actually say all that much; the main person arguing with Martello was a troper I don't recognize called Exelixi, who felt that swords were superior to guns and had only fallen out of fashion because of "logistics". Didn't they have this argument in It's Always Sunny?
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Mar 19, 2014 01:37
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You know what would make the gym better? If everyone was made to listen to Dragonforce at ear splitting volume!
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Mar 21, 2014 01:20
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Thank you for not using anime examples, thank you for making it be something that 90s kids can get.
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Mar 22, 2014 23:01
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Haha no it's cool, I actually was worried that your explanation would be unreadable anime garbage because so much of TVTropes is unreadable anime garbage, but fortunately all your examples were of childrens shows I used to watch as a child, in the 90s. I can't same I'm glad that I read it, but nonethless thank you for writing a clear explanation v v
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Mar 22, 2014 23:52
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Who is even making these horrible video games
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Mar 23, 2014 18:30
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I cannot imagine a random third party could read all, or most, or some, or even a little bit of that (and I read it all  ) and come away thinking "hmm yes I think The Nostalgia Critic would be a good thing to watch.
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Mar 25, 2014 04:28
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quote:Considering the works the directors have previously worked on, this was more than likely intentional Take note, goons: this is how you construct a sentence.
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Mar 27, 2014 20:07
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Bwaune sounds like a 4 year old with a speech impediment trying to say Brown. Spooky!
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Mar 28, 2014 00:24
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Erotic Redwall fiction, my childhood waaa
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Mar 31, 2014 14:57
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What is Fanon? Surely they can't mean Frantz Fanon...
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Apr 2, 2014 00:32
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Of all the things I wish I hadn't learned from TVTropes I wish I hadn't learned that the most.
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Apr 2, 2014 01:17
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DoctorWhat posted:But half the Weasley family is named after Arthurian characters, so Ginny should have been obvious! You are expecting tropers to be knowledgeable of anything that isn't anime, children's cartoons, or young adult fiction.
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Apr 4, 2014 01:33
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What the gently caress do tropers even mean by character development? That Madoka anime review leaves me with some questions.
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Apr 8, 2014 13:55
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I'm curious, is there any overlap between LessWrong and those Dark Enlightenment psychos?
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Apr 9, 2014 16:37
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Behemoth — Nergal is choleric; Inferno is melancholic; Orion is phlegmatic; and Seth is sanguine. I don't know why I'm surprised at least one black metal fan reads TVT, but I guess I am.
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Apr 13, 2014 17:01
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Is Calvin an ephebophile? My thousand word post on the Calvin & Hobbes analysis page explores this thorny issue -- and so much more.
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Apr 15, 2014 03:31
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There is a link to a scribd document of all the troper tales in the OP. Didn't a goon try reading the Methods of Rationality in one of the last threads? Also, what constitutes a well-filled set of panties? On second thought, maybe it's best if that goes unanswered... VVVVV I would read a LW thread for sure Swan Oat fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Apr 19, 2014 |
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Apr 19, 2014 16:43
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graybook posted:I wonder if I should be worried that a close friend of mine has submitted a piece of fan-work to MoR. I think hearing of his "accomplishment" was the first time I had encountered MoR entirely, and after reading what y'all have had to say about it, his liking that work seems... problematic. Sever.
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Apr 20, 2014 19:00
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Lunatics key posted:Keep in mind, they were popular among children, This kind of aside is distressingly common in any sort of "look what they slipped into my cartons!!!!" discussion and it's horrible. It's bad enough they have to list all the times Hannah Montana was actually about that fetish about having to hold your piss for a long time or whatever, buy why do they also then have to remind the reader that this media is also aimed at kids. Ugh. I guess I answered my own question!
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Apr 21, 2014 13:31
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It actually makes less sense to me that Linkara is an actual person and not an anime.
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Apr 21, 2014 22:41
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can you please elaborate on the bad political opinions of a person who reviews comics (?) and anime (?) and also becomes an anime sometimes? I think you can mention that he has them but only if you also mention what they are.
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Apr 22, 2014 02:26
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Little Blackfly posted:John Milton Class. I took an undergraduate class on Milton. I don't think tvtropes would have been welcome in class discussion though.
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Apr 29, 2014 22:58
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This is how I am about champagne bottles
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May 3, 2014 06:51
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